#raf

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses. ↗

— David Knopfler

#apart #been #considered #constructively #craft

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#bare #going #had #i #just

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#i #instead #page #polishing #quick

Hey, I don’t call the shots,” he says. “If I was good at marketing, I’d spin you an empty story that sounds profound. But the truth is that we’re all just stumbling around in the dark. Sometimes we hit something terrible.” “That’s it? It can’t be as random as that.” I don’t know what I want to hear, but that’s not it. “It’s always as random as that.” He sounds more like a seasoned soldier than any angel I’ve ever heard of. One thing’s for sure—I’m not going to get a lot of answers out of him. My hand stays out with the offered food long enough to make the moment awkward. “Don’t you want it?” I ask. “That depends on why you’re giving it to me.” I shrug. “Sometimes, as we’re stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ↗

— Susan Ee

#food

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#been #chick #craft #i #i do

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#crafts #feel #guys #just #like

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#craft #go #happen #heard #i

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#artist #experienced #feeling #handicraft #transmission

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#acting #back #become #changing #craft

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#boat #drafted #fact #go #government